It Gets Better
October 27, 2011
Though certainly not less stressful.
I am pleased to report that I have felt much better in the past week and a half than I have in weeks. A few of my strategies are working! Yay!
Happy Things This Week:
- two sixth grade girls asking if I could skip student teaching to going straight to being their head teacher because I’m their favorite
- hearing a different sixth grade girl’s fantastic singing voice, and her aspirations to become a professional singer and donate her money to Down’s Syndrome research
- conferences with four students on their persuasive essays, and feeling sincere gratitude and a growing positive relationship with all of them
- finally seeing Phantom of the Opera and inspired the 8-year-old in me that used to walk around with that tape constantly in my Walkman
- getting to hear my old piano teacher play in a concert
- coming home to discover that some sweet boy I know had washed the dishes that were in my room
- reading Oliver Twist and realizing there is good reason why it’s considered a classic
- having my master’s project mentor call my writing “hot stuff”
- my mom gifting me a turquoise wool beret
- spending a weekend in colorful New Hampshire with my family and my dog 
